Month: October 2013

Israel on Sunday froze shipments of building materials to the Gaza Strip after discovering an alleged “terror tunnel” entering its borders from the adjoining territory, a defense official said. “Due to security reasons, (the army) […]

A group of Israeli right-wingers raised the Israeli flag while touring the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Monday, locals said. Witnesses said that a group of 14 Israeli rightists pulled out an Israeli flag while touring […]

A Palestinian group in Syria said Sunday that over 200 Palestinians were aboard a boat which capsized off Malta’s coast on Friday. The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria said that at least 200 Palestinian […]

By Richard Falk Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO intervention that helped anti-Qaddafi rebel forces overthrow his regime. The […]

(Generation Palestine – Voices from the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement. Ed. Rich Wiles. Pluto Press, 2013.) Reviewed by Jim Miles Generation Palestine is a timely and enlightening work. For all the reading available on […]

By Ramzy Baroud “Nothing is more precious than freedom,” is quoted as being attributed to Vo Nguyen Giap, a Vietnamese General that led his country through two liberation wars. The first was against French colonialists, […]

Three-hundred Palestinians were allowed to travel outside of Gaza on Tuesday through the Rafah land crossing after Egyptian authorities briefly re-opened it for humanitarian cases, an official said. Sharif Abdullah, Egyptian director of the Rafah […]

By Ludwig Watzal Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was a political impudence. He showed the world that he has not understood the signs of times. He seemed out of place with diplomacy and […]

By Ramzy Baroud Since the Hamas election victory in January 2006 — and particularly after the Hamas-Fatah clashes and split between Gaza and the West Bank in the summer of 2007 — Gaza has undergone […]

Reviewed by Jamal Kanj (Fast Times in Palestine. Pamela Olson. Seal Press, March 2013) Whenever I read a biographical book, I make it a point to start with the acknowledgement page to learn a little […]

Israeli forces shot 6-year-old Musab al-Sarahneh in the eye in al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron early last week, his family reported. The boy lost his right eye after Israeli forces opened fire on the […]

By Vacy Vlazna What image of Palestinians would viewers, who have a smattering, or if any, knowledge of the Palestinian struggle, gain after seeing Dror Moreh’s documentary, The Gatekeepers? The word ‘terrorist’ and versions thereof […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The furor over the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria has overshadowed disturbing events to the south, as Egypt’s generals wage a quiet war of attrition against the Hamas leadership […]

By Neve Gordon In the 2012 elections, J Street, the relatively new pro-Israel lobby whose stated purpose is to promote a progressive peace agenda in the Middle East, says its PAC disbursed more than $1.8 […]

By Nicola Nasser – Birzeit, West Bank Iran seems successful in turning the Iraqi “strategic” agreement with the US into a tactical one, while it is succeeding in turning its own tactical accords with Iraq […]

By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg Revelations made in South Africa’s weekend newspaper City Press during the end of September 2013, places Israel’s notorious Mossad at the center of alarmist reports raised on the so-called “White […]

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian farmer in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli forces stationed east of Gaza City opened fire at a group of farmers in […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his country’s position that the only way to peacefully stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is to combine tough sanctions with a credible military threat, asserting that Israel […]

By Richard Falk General Observations During my period as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine on behalf of the Human Rights Council I have been struck by the persistent efforts of Israel […]

The United States reserves the right to keep all options, including military action, on the table with regards to engaging with Iran, the US president has said after holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin […]

Suspected Israeli extremists vandalized a Christian cemetery in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan early Tuesday, a local group said. Father Firas Hijazeen said extremists destroyed a tombstone and sprayed racist slogans on the outer […]

By Ramzy Baroud Egypt’s new ruler, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, may not realize that the bond between Egypt, Palestine and especially Gaza is beyond historic, and simply cannot be severed with border restrictions, albeit they […]

A Palestinian refugee was killed in Syria on Tuesday, a local group said. The Workforce for Palestinians in Syria said that Muhannad Ahmad Abu Jrouh, 33, was killed during government shelling on Daraa refugee camp. […]

By Zaakir Ahmed Mayet – Johannesburg The shopping complex known as Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi is on everyone’s lips and every news agency appears to be covering the ghastly event that catapulted […]

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